The Power of Movement in Plants

by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin

$5,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: John Murray, 1880. First edition, first issue, of Darwin’s penultimate book, the record of the experiments he made with his son Francis in a private house in Kent, which established that a seedling senses light at its tip while the bending happens lower down, and that something passes from the one place to the other. The science of plant hormones grew out of that one observation. The copy comes from the

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